Grants

Major competitive external grants that have supported our group’s work:

• Department of Energy Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation R&D, “Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation’s Enabling Capabilities in Technology (TecH) Consortium,” March 2025 – March 2030. $25M. Lead PI.

• Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office (Department of Homeland Security), Academic Research Initiative, “Investigation of Detectors, Algorithms, and Systems (IDEAS) for Mobile Active Interrogation with Neutrons (MAIN),” Sep. 2021 – Sep. 2026. $2.5M. Lead PI.

• DOE Office of Science Basic Energy Sciences Program, “Neutron Scattering Instrumentation Research and Development for High Spatial and Temporal Resolution Imaging and Oak Ridge National Laboratory,” Sep. 2021 – Sep. 2023. $460K. Sole PI.

• UC Berkeley (through Department of Energy Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation R&D), “Nuclear Science and Security Consortium,” Sep. 2021- Sep. 2026. $3.75M. Lead PI.
• UC Berkeley (through Department of Energy Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation R&D), “Nuclear Science and Security Consortium,” July 2016-June 2021. $4.25M. Lead PI.
• Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (Department of Homeland Security), Exploratory Research in Nuclear Detection, “Detector-mask investigation for dual gamma ray and fast neutron, imaging and spectroscopy,” Sep. 2010 –Sep. 2015. $2.28M. Lead PI.
• National Science Foundation & Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (Department of Homeland Security), Academic Research Initiative, “Research Program in Exploiting Time-Correlated Signatures and Directionality of Interrogation to Detect Shielded Highly-Enriched Uranium,” Sep. 2009 – Aug. 2015. $2M. Sole PI.
• Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (Department of Homeland Security), Academic Research Initiative, “Investigation of Detectors, Algorithms, and Systems for Wearable Intelligent Nuclear Detection (IDEAS for WIND),” Sep. 2015 – Aug. 2020.  $1.75M. Lead PI.
• Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (Department of Homeland Security), Academic Research Initiative, “Investigation of Detectors, Algorithms, and Systems (IDEAS) for Rapid and Robust Clearing of Cargo from Shielded SNM,” Sep. 2016 – Aug. 2021. $1.75M. Lead PI.
• Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Basic Research for Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction, “Glasses for detection of penetrating radiation via the Cherenkov effect,” Aug. 2009 – Aug. 2014.  $1.5M. Lead PI.
• Defense Threat Reduction Agency, “Investigation of Detectors, Algorithms, and Systems (IDEAS) to Advance Autonomous Radiological/Nuclear Search,” Jan. 2018 – Jan. 2021.  $1.05M. Lead PI.
• Department of Energy Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation R&D, “Advances to Fission Chain and Multiplicity Analysis in Large Uranium Assemblies Using Imaged, Time-Tagged Prompt Neutron and Gamma Nuclear Data,” June 2014 – June 2018.  $750K. Sole PI.
• DOE Office of Science Early Career Research Program, “Neutron Scattering Instrumentation Research and Development for High Spatial and Temporal Resolution Imaging and Oak Ridge National Laboratory,” July 2013 – July 2018.  $750K. Sole PI.
• Department of Energy Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation R&D, “Enhancing Energy Migration and Proportionality in Scintillation Materials,” Feb. 2010 – Jan. 2014. $755K. co-PI.
• Oregon State University (through DOE Office of Nuclear Energy), “Muon imaging of dry fuel storage casks,” Oct. 2014 – Dec. 2017. $750K. co-PI.
• Office of Naval Research through the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP), Sep. 2009 – Aug. 2010. $603K. Sole PI.